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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part three of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tons. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part two of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will tele transport himself...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
There are all kinds of people on earth that you will meet some day… They will be looking for a certain stone. They will be people who do not get tired, but who will keep pushing forward, going, going all the time… These people do not follow the way of our great-grandfather. They follow another way. They will travel everywhere, looking for this stone which our great-grandfather put on the earth in many places. Sweet MedicineOn the morning on January...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part one of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. In certain places, forests burn into the night despite the falling rain; men and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With the world's media attention focused on repression in Syria and the threat to the Euro, the Indian state of Kashmir, nestling in the shadow of the Himalayas, is in danger of becoming a forgotten conflict. But two years back this Valley in the shadow of the Himalayas erupted in some of the most violent street protests it has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of stone-throwing teenagers took aim at heavily armed Indian Security Force troops, who...
6) July '64
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1964: Violence erupted on a hot July night in Rochester, New York. July '64 tells the story of an unrest that altered the course of history in Rochester, and predicted urban unrest throughout the American North. The night of Friday, July 24th, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester New York, stiflingly hot and humid; but by the next morning no one would look at race relations in the North the same again. July '64 takes a penetrating...
7) Ezra
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa's largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Ezra stands out among other African films because it is a complex...
8) Connections
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
James Burke presents science as a detective story, illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Burke tracks through twelve thousand years of history for the clues that lead to eight great life-changing inventions-- the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
James Burke presents science as a detective story, illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Burke tracks through twelve thousand years of history for the clues that lead to eight great life-changing inventions-- the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.
10) They came back
Publisher
Wellspring Media [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
"One morning, a small French city wakes up to discover thousands of recently dead people walking into town. The reason why is a mystery and there is no time to look into it. Hasty reunions--some passionate, some strained--occur with their survivors. But can they be reintegrated into society when their jobs have been filled and their partners have moved on? As officials try to figure out that to do with them, the dead begin behaving in bizarre ways...
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Chris Botti, on the heels of his breakthrough Gold-certified When I Fall in Love, and the record-breaking follow-up, To Love Again, plays two triumphant shows at the Wilshire Theatre backed by a full orchestra and his virtuosic band.
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, during WWII, somewhere in Nazi occupied Romania, a night of comic misadventures ensues when a boy discovers a dead soldier. The German authorities demand that the perpetrator must be identified or the town leaders will be shot the following morning. In their desperation, led by Father Johanis, their salvation seems to lie in convincing the town ₁fool,₂ Ipu, to agree to confess, and save them all with his sacrifice.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On a rainy August morning in 2018, a massive section of the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and killed 43 people, despite having withstood fifty years of traffic. All over American and Europe, thousands of bridges are listed as structurally deficient -- how can new technologies and engineering improvements make bridges safer?
14) Caffeinated
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Learn the story behind your morning Joe. From seed to mug, coffee, and the process by which it is created, has shaped the lives of thousands of individuals worldwide. Working with Geoff Watts, famous green-buyer, the filmmakers travel to America's most populous coffee-drinking cities and to producing countries, interviewing connoisseurs and farmers alike. With a focus on the social and cultural landscape of coffee, Caffeinated gives the coffee consumer...
Author
Publisher
Morse Institute Library (14 East Central St., Natick, MA 01760)
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Don Oulton spent nine months of the Korean War as an intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) scout in the Chorwon Valley. In great detail he talks about Star Hill, Triangle Hill (Hill 598), and Jane Russell Hill, and recalls ninety days of monsoons and sleeping in five inches of water. He also talks about risking his life to save an Ethiopian UN soldier, sniper fire, and close-range combat with the Chinese Communist forces. Daily interaction with the...
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